Mark 15:21

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they compelled a certain passerby, Simon the Cyrenian, who was arriving from the countryside, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to take up his cross.

Cross References

Matthew 27:32

But as they were going out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, named Simon, whom they compelled to take up his cross.

Matthew 5:41

And whoever will have compelled you for one thousand steps, go with him even for two thousand steps.

Mark 15:20

And after they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple, and they clothed him in his own garments. And they led him away, so that they might crucify him.

Luke 14:27

And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

Luke 23:26

And as they were leading him away, they apprehended a certain one, Simon of Cyrene, as he was returning from the countryside. And they imposed the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

John 19:17

And carrying his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew it is called the Place of the Skull.

Acts 11:20

But some of these men from Cyprus and Cyrene, when they had entered into Antioch, were speaking also to the Greeks, announcing the Lord Jesus.

Acts 13:1

Now there were, in the Church at Antioch, prophets and teachers, among whom were Barnabas, and Simon, who was called the Black, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Acts 2:10

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya which are around Cyrene, and new arrivals of the Romans,

Acts 6:9

But certain ones, from the synagogue of the so-called Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those who were from Cilicia and Asia rose up and were disputing with Stephen.

Romans 16:13

Greet Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.